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Oh, the return of *8 Things! (Remember, this is originally a Magpie Girl concept – please click her link in the blogroll to the right and show her some love).

8 Books On My Nightstand:
1. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (currently reading)
2. Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal (almost done, but it’s a heavy. I have to have light reading simultaneously, hence Stiff)
3. The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank (book swap score, next on my list)
4. Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (I’m addicted to his memoirs, thanks Stardust!)
5. A Night Without Armor by Jewel (because I have to pick up a poetry book at least 5 times a week to keep living and breathing)
6. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (technically already read, several times, but I’ve been picking it up again lately.)
7. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (I need to read this next because I borrowed it from Manna, but the Girls’ Guide is calling as well. We’ll see who wins.)
8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (awaiting this book swap find!)

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Inspiration

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859